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Peter Herscovitch
Researcher at Karolinska Institutet
Publications - 18
Citations - 1291
Peter Herscovitch is an academic researcher from Karolinska Institutet. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cerebral blood flow & Brain positron emission tomography. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 1255 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Herscovitch include University of Pennsylvania.
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Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep- wake cycle
Allen R. Braun,Thomas J. Balkin,Nancy J. Wesensten,Richard E. Carson,M. Varga,Paul Baldwin,S. Selbie,Gregory Belenky,Peter Herscovitch +8 more
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PET imaging of 5-HT1A receptor binding in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
Maria T. Toczek,Richard E. Carson,L. Lang,Y. Ma,Marianna Spanaki,Margaret G. Der,S. Fazilat,Leonid Kopylev,Peter Herscovitch,William C. Eckelman,William H. Theodore +10 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis of reduced serotonin receptor binding in temporal lobe epileptic foci is supported by the findings of PET imaging and MRI.
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Decreased GABA-A binding on FMZ-PET in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency
Phillip L. Pearl,K. M. Gibson,Zenaide M.N. Quezado,Irene H. Dustin,Jacob Taylor,Stacey Trzcinski,John M. Schreiber,K. Forester,Patricia Reeves-Tyer,Clarissa J. Liew,Sadat Shamim,Peter Herscovitch,Richard E. Carson,John A. Butman,C.A.J.M. Jakobs,William H. Theodore +15 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that high endogenous brain GABA levels in SSADH deficiency downregulate GABA(A)-BZPR binding site availability, and suggests that PET may be useful to translate studies in animal models to human disease.